British Rail Mark 3
British Rail's third design of standard carriage was designated 'Mark 3' (also described as Mark III), and was developed in response to competition from airlines and the motorcar in the 1960s. A variant of the Mk3 became the rolling stock for the High Speed Train or Inter-City 125 with the first built coaches being for the prototype HST in 1972. Production coaches entered service between 1975 to 1988 with multiple-unit designs based on the Mark 3 bodyshell built into the early 1990s. The Mark 3 and its many derivatives are widely recognised as one of British Rail's greatest engineering achievements, with the vast majority of the surviving fleet still in revenue service on the British railway network to the present day.
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